Data Mining

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Data mining (the analysis step of the “Knowledge Discovery in Databases” process, or KDD), an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science, is the computational process of discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and database systems.

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The primary privacy issue with data mining is if results enable a user to identify the person to which the data belongs. The degree of risk of that happening depends on the extent to which the organization stores personally identifying data and how protected its system is from fraudulent breaches that allow others to use[...]